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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Berthold Auerbach

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Eye Lightning Looks
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

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